British actor Christian Bale still feels "haunted" by the 2012 cinema massacre during a screening of his Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises just weeks before the alleged gunman's trial is due to kick off. James Holmes, 26, is accused of opening fire on a packed movie theatre in Colorado, killing 12 film fans and injuring a further 58, and jury selection for his trial is expected to begin in the new year (Jan15).
Bale has now opened up about the atrocity ahead of the high-profile court case, revealing he and the film's director Christopher Nolan are still struggling to deal with the horror of the crime.
He tells the Wall Street Journal, "That haunts me to this day, haunts all of us who were involved. I know it haunts Chris (Nolan) as well, because we were stuck in a hotel in France when it happened."
Holmes denies a number of charges including first-degree murder and attempted murder for allegedly opening fire in the Aurora cinema shortly before a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in July, 2012.

Actress Rachel Bilson is a new mum after giving birth to baby girl Briar Rose. The former The O.C. star and her boyfriend, Star Wars actor Hayden Christensen, appear to have picked the fairytale name from the Brothers Grimm's Sleeping Beauty tale. Briar Rose was also the alter ego given to Princess Aurora by her three fairy guardians in the beloved animated Disney film adaptation.
Bilson celebrated the impending birth with a baby shower at the end of August (14) and guests included Hollywood mums Natalie Portman and Jaime King.

He’s one of the biggest names in Hollywood, but Christian Bale has always been somewhat of a mystery. Hell, we didn’t even realize he had a British accent until a few years ago! He commits so fully to his characters that we felt it was only right to commit to digging up facts on this transformative actor. Some you may know already, others might come as a surprise.
1. He was born in Wales, but he’s technically English.
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But to make things even more confusing, he'll sometimes do interviews in an American accent if he's playing an American character.
2. He was the first non-American to portray Batman.
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3. He met his wife, Sibi Blazic, through his Little Women co-star Winona Ryder.
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Blazic was Ryder’s personal assistant.
4. He's an expert at losing and gaining weight.
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Bale transforms for his roles. He infamously lost 63 pounds (yikes) for his role in The Machinist , and gained 43 pounds for his role in American Hustle.
5. He worked with David O. Russell and Amy Adams twice – in both The Fighter and American Hustle.
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6. He was in Newsies.
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He sang! He danced! He was an adorable teenager!
7. He was originally cast to play George W. Bush in the movie W., but dropped out and was replaced by Josh Brolin.
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8. He has a kind heart.
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Following a 2012 shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises, Bale visited survivors in the hospital.
9. He also has a bit of a temper.
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A recording of his tirade on the set of Terminator: Salvation was released – and remixed – in 2009. He apologized for it, though.
10. He was almost replaced by Leonardo DiCaprio in American Psycho.
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Leo dropped out to star in The Beach. We'd say things worked out in favor of Bale.
11. He partially shaved his head to get an authentic-looking combover in American Hustle.
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Now that's dedication!
12. His dad, David Bale, was married to feminist Gloria Steinem from 2000 until his death in 2003.
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13. At age 12, Bale beat out more than 4,000 child actors for the starring role in Empire of the Sun.
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His performance won him the first ever "Best Performance by a Juvenile Actor" award from the National Board of Review.
14. He was just cast to play Steve Jobs.
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He's set to star in the Danny Boyle-directed film Jobs (not to be confused with the Ashton Kutcher flick of the same name). Seth Rogen just signed on to play Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
15. He bears a striking resemblence to Kermit the Frog.
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We blame the Internet for this one.
Hopefully we made this private actor just a little more knowable.
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Actress Candace Cameron Bure has landed a leading role in a new TV movie series based on True Blood author Charlaine Harris' Aurora Teagarden mystery books.
The former Full House star will play librarian and amateur crime detective Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden in the small screen adaptations, which will be developed for America's Hallmark channel.
Harris' Teagarden series spawned eight novels, beginning with 1990's Real Murders, although it is not yet clear how many TV films will be produced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The writer's other big franchise, True Blood, was adapted for TV in 2008. The vampire drama will wrap for good after its current seventh and final series.

"She's wonderful. It was a very lovely moment to see Angie with her on screen, and they were terrific together. It was just great." Jon Voight was thrilled to see daughter Angelina Jolie's little girl Vivienne as the young Princess Aurora in mum's new movie Maleficent.

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Captain Hook might be funnier and Cruella De Vil might be better dressed, but no Disney villain is more terrifyingly iconic than Maleficent. Since she stormed into a party she wasn’t invited to in a wave of green fire, she’s been the inspiration for television shows, cosmetic lines and of course, countless children’s nightmares. Now, like the evil diva she is, Maleficent is finally getting a feature film of her own, starring the equally stunning and powerful Angelina Jolie. The film, which is currently in theaters, will look back at the origins and inner life of the mistress of evil and make her the hero of her own story.
And while we’re excited to learn more about what turned Maleficent from a normal, happy fairy into one of the scariest cartoon characters of all time, we’re much more interested in her as a villain than as a heroine. In the process of adding some backstory to the character, Disney took away several of the key characteristics that made Maleficent so amazing and intimidating, and frankly, the dark side just seems to suit her better. Don't believe us? Let's take a look at old-school Maleficent:
She’s Unapologetic Because Maleficent is a Disney film, it needs a happy ending, and so Maleficent learns to love Aurora and believe, once again, in the idea of goodness. That’s all dandy, but the original Maleficent never would have apologized for or given up her evil deeds. Instead of letting things go, she decided to stand up for herself and wouldn’t compromise on her beliefs, and that’s just as valuable a life lesson as forgiveness, and it makes for a much less cheesy ending.
She’s Confident Like all coming of age stories, Maleficent follows the main character as she grows into her abilities and learns to have faith in herself, and while it might make for an interesting story, it’s not nearly as entertaining as the original Maleficent, who enters full of confidence and power. By the time we meet her, she’s already realized her potential, and she’ll take every opportunity she gets to remind the people around her just how awesome she is. We should all be as proud of ourselves as Maleficent is.
She’s an Advocate of Good Manners Look, nobody wants the evil witch who lives in the creepy tower bringing down the festivities at their daughter’s christening, but if you’re going to invite the whole kingdom, it’s only polite to send an invitation her way as a courtesy. If you ask us, that’s a much more important lesson for children to learn than the “be careful who you trust” or “don’t betray your friends in order to become king" that Maleficent preaches.
Her Outfits Are Fabulous Sure, fairies and princesses get pretty ball gowns, but Maleficent has a crown made of horns that’s taller and more intimidating than any tiara. That alone would make the dark side worth it, but she’s also got a dramatic cape, designed for quick getaways and punctuating her threats with style and panache. Besides, a cape is perfect for all occasions: casual get-togethers, formal events, murder, putting curses on people, flying away into the night. Ball gowns don’t have that kind of versatility.
She Can Transform Into a Dragon By far the coolest aspect of Maleficent’s character in Sleeping Beauty is her ability to turn into a dragon at will. Unfortunately, that awesome trait doesn’t belong to her in Maleficent, as instead of becoming a dragon and fighting Prince Phillip, she transforms her faithful crow/man pal instead and sends him off to do her bidding. It’s great to get your own movie, but is it really worth giving up your ability to become a dragon?
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As I watched Maleficent toggle between magic woodlands filled with trembling mushroom people and grim battle scenes steeped in markedly misanthropic revenge tales, I had to ask myself the question: who is this movie for? Too shallow for adults, too dark and dull for kids, yet still too cutesy for teens... I left the theater certain that Angelina Jolie's perplexing Disney twist wasn't for anyone, but in assessing the aforementioned elements as pieces of a puzzle rather than conflicting forces, I've come to realize just the opposite: Maleficent is for all people, because Maleficent is about all people. To be more precise, the film's structure is modeled after the lifespan of a human being.
Like all people, Maleficent starts out simple, unbearably bright, and cloyingly enchanted with everything around it — as a lass, fairy princess Maleficent (played by a preteen Isobelle Molloy) scrambles through her fairy-laden home, giggling like a Care Bear with the variety of natural abominations she calls friends (elephant-frogs, tree-skeletons, troll-rabbits). It's sweet enough to invite anaphylaxis.
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It then grows into its teen years: brooding and self-serious — an older Maleficent (now Ella Purnell) falls horns-over-wingtips for some dope named Stefan, who vows his true love to her but is totes just being a selfish d-bag — followed by the violent hostility of its young adulthood — Stefon (Sharlto Copley, affecting a bad guy in an Animaniacs period sketch) betrays Maleficent (finally Jolie, who cuts through the thick, musty sheaths of aimless convolution with her incredible screen charisma... or maybe just those diabolical cheekbones) by stealing her wings, earning his place as king and setting her off on a course of bitter revenge.
For a long while thereafter, Maleficent settles into adulthood: cynical, mechanical, apparently bored with its life altogether (this after Maleficent dooms King Stefon's baby daughter Aurora to the curse of eventual eternal sleep) ... that is, until a change in direction affords it a short-lived whimsy that perks up the energy just enough to keep it (and us) trucking to the end. If we can work our way past Imelda Staunton, Leslie Manville, and Juno Temple as the insufferable and incompetent fairies charged with caring over young Aurora (Elle Fanning, but without the usual moxy).
Of course, before it gets there, it endures the ever faithful mid-life crisis, ushers in a resurgence of misguided passion that never had much place in the formula to begin with and certainly doesn't seem at all at home this time around — this is an era of ghost-fish, dragon-fights, and plot contrivances out the wazoo. But finally, the film settles on the tranquility of willful disregard, knowing that there's nothing it can now do about its lifetime of shortcomings, happily committing to memories of the things it loved most: reptile-pachyderm hybrids, diabolical cheekbones, and the narration of Janet McTeer. Like any human, Maleficent leaves the world with more questions than answers, and ones we're all better off relegating to a few short words upon its passing and then forgetting altogether.
And, much like all people, it's not very good. Fine. Not altogether bad. But mostly just brazenly unimportant.
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Actress sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning are direct descendants of England's King Edward III and relatives of British princess Catherine, Duchess Of Cambridge, according to genealogy experts. Historians at Ancestry.com have traced the Fanning family history back hundreds of years and discovered Super 8 star Elle is the 22nd great-granddaughter of England's King Edward III, who ruled from 1330 to 1376.
That means Dakota is also a descendant of Edward III through their mother, Heather Joy Arrington.
Ancestry.com's Michelle Ercanbrack tells People.com, "Generation after generation, the lines we looked at pieced back directly to King Edward III proving that Elle is a direct descendant of royalty.
"You can consider her a long lost princess. This connection is so unique and rare."
Website experts have also established the Fannings are distant cousins of Prince William's wife, Catherine, as the Duchess' mother Carole Goldsmith is also a descendant of King Edward III.
Ironically, Elle Fanning plays Disney princess Aurora in new movie Maleficent.

"When I was little people would ask me, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and I would always say 'a Disney princess'. That was the goal." Actress Elle Fanning insists playing Princess Aurora in new movie Maleficent is a dream come true.

Synopsis

Sophia Loren and her real-life eleven-year-old son (in his acting debut) are mother and son in this romantic comedy-dama about a woman who sets out to track down and trick several former lovers to pay for the boy's badly needed eye operation. A true family affair that not only starred Loren and son but also was produced by Alex Ponti, her stepson, and featured her niece, Allesandra Mussolini (Benito's granddaughter), this movie was filmed on location in Italy with an all Italian and French cast, except for Daniel J. Travanti, as one of the boy's possible fathers, and Anna Strasberg (Lee's widow). Originally it was titled "Aurora By Night" and then "My Three Loves."